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From: eaw@Alliant.COM (Eric Woudenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Dead Rodime drive
Message-ID: <3510@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 31 Oct 89 19:46:55 GMT
References: <16379@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: eaw@alliant.Alliant.COM (Eric Woudenberg)
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA
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In an article boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Boswell) writes:

>	My ~2 year old Rodime 20-plus harddisk has died.  ...
> ... the platter doesn't seem to start to spin.

I had this happen to me after my disk [not a Rodime] had been turned
off for 5 days.  I ended up using a pair of needle nose pliers to turn
the drive spindle manually about a half revolution (working my way
around the static spring). This worked, after which I immediately
backed everything up.  I haven't had any problems since, but I don't
turn it off for more than an hour either.  Scary.

Eric Woudenberg